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group); palpi porrect, long, slender, flattened, fringed beneath; legs slender 

 antenna? with the club stout, grooved ; eyes hairy. 



To this description, Niceville adds (Butts. India, iii., p. 203) : — 



Fore wing has the first subcostal nervure emitted beyond the middle of the 

 discoidal cell, quite free from the costal nervure, second subcostal emitted much 

 nearer to the base of the upper discoidal than to the base of the first subcostal 

 nervule, third subcostal emitted at about midway between the base of upper discoidal 

 and apex of wing, middle and lower discocellular nervules nearly erect, of nearly 

 equal length and slightly concave, the second median nervule emitted long before 

 the apex of the cell. Hindwing with the discocellular nervules outwardly oblique, 

 of equal length, concave ; second median nervule emitted just before the apex of 

 the cell. 



It is difficult to determine, in the present state of our knowledge, 

 just what the limits of the tribe are. It is quite clear from the 

 structure of the genitalia, etc., that boeticus stands almost alone, and 

 appears to be rather in alliance with certain African and Australian 

 species, which, however, are not congeneric. We have already (antea, 

 p. 326) referred to the very peculiar androconial scales of Lampides 

 boeticus, so different from those of the more typical "blues" (see also 

 postea, pp. 333, 334). It would be interesting to know whether any of 

 the suggested allies have similar androconia. 



Staudinger gives (Cat., 3rd ed., pp. 76-77) the following Palsearctic 

 species as belonging to the genus Lampides: — boeticus, Quin., telicanus, 

 Lang, balkanica, Frr., theophrastus, Yah., jesous, Guer., ivebbianus, Brulle, 

 phiala, Grum-Grsh., eleusis Demais., thebana, Staud., and c/alba, Led. 

 Tlrs is a wonderfully heterogeneous lot of insects, of which boeticus 

 certainly stands genericalhy alone, with considerable doubt whether 

 any of the other species are even Laiupidid, i.e., whether they are 

 even tribally connected. The species telicanus and icebbianus, are 

 somewhat closely allied but they are certainly quite distinct tribally 

 from Laiupides, and we have placed the former in a new genus Langia. 

 Of the Egyptian and Syrian species Graves notes (Ent. Rec, xviii., 

 p. 307), that boeticus and telicanus are very much more distantly allied 

 than telicanus and eleusis; jesous (aamra) is borne distance from these, and 

 forms, perhaps, a connection between them and theophrastus and 

 balcanica, whilst thebana and f/alba are somewhat close, and lorm a 

 connection with CJiilades (trochilus). Of Staudinger's conglomeration, 

 Bethune-Baker writes : " Boeticus stands quite alone so far as Staud- 

 inger's genus is concerned, and is the only representative of the 

 Lampididi. The remainder are quite outside the tribe. Of these, 

 telicanus, Lang, and icebbianus, Brulle, belong to the genus Lawjia, 

 whilst theophrastus, Fab., and balkanica, Frr., belong to the genus 

 Tarucus, Moore, who made the former species the type ; jesous, Guer., 

 belongs to the genus Castalius, Hb., whilst phiala, Grum-Grsh., eleusis, 

 Demais., and thebana, Stand., belong to the genus Azanus, Moore, the 

 type of which is ubaldus, Cra., although I am doubtful whether Azanus 

 is really generically distinct from Castalius. I may add that I cannot 

 separate thebana, Stdgr., from azanus, Bth., and believe they are the same 

 species. But none of these belong tb the Lampidids, which appears 

 to be confined (with the exception of boeticus, L.) to the Indo-Malayan, 

 Papuan, and Australian sub-regions. Even then Lampides boeticus 

 appears to stand quite alone, without any very near allies, tha nearest 

 being probably the Australian genus Eutycha. The Lampididi may 

 be found to include Law/rides, Jamides, Nacaduba, and part of Cato- 



